Re: [xml-dev] What is the meaning of the first child element for aneleme

[Peter Flynn <peter@silmaril.ie>]

On 27/10/2020 09:45, Tomos Hillman wrote:
[...]
> Yes, there may be a risk.  The risk is that a schema doesn't incorporate 
> business rules, nor does it document semantic meaning.
At best, it can only imply or hint, although that can sometimes be all 
that is needed. In the publishing field there are many vocabularies with 
element types such as

<title>
<main-title>
<subtitle>
<full-title>
<draft-title>
<called-title>
etc

Equally, there can just be <title> with attributes, and external 
documentation (think TEI) that explains in the finest possible detail 
EXACTLY how you construct the metadata from sources with multiple ways 
of expressing their title, including no title at all.

Peter